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SEEFET «2014542 NOV SI STAFF
CITE ST PETERSBURG 21162
TO: MOSCOW INFO DIRECTOR.
FOR: LIMIT SE/USSR/IO INFO SE/RR
SLUGS: WNINTEL GTDANCER
SUBJECT: KGB OFFICIAL NIKONOV
REF: NONE
TEXT:

1. ACTION REQUIRED: NONE.

2. DURING THE WEEK OF 3-9 NOVEMBER 1991, U.S. PROFESSOR
£.B. ((SMITH)), HAD SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS IN MOSCOW WITH "'SLAVA"
((NIKONOV}), WHO IS A LONGTIME FRI?7ND AND NOW DEPUTY TO KGB
DIRECTOR ((BAKATIN)). THE PROFESSOR HAS KNOWN NIKONOV WELL
SINCE 1976. HE CURRENTLY IS INSTRUCTING ON A FULBRIGHT GRANT
AT ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY UNTIL 22 DECEMBER 1991. SEE
PARA 7 FOR BIO ON THE PROFESSOR. OCOB STEVEN R. HEIBERG HAS
BEFRIENDEO THE PROFESSOR, WHO WAS DINNER GUEST AT HEIBERG'S
HOME ON 10 NOVEMBER AND PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFO ON NIKONOV
AND HIS NEW KGB JOB.

3. NIKONOV 1S THE GRANDSON OF FORMER SOVIET FOREIGN
MINISTER VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV. THE U.S. PROFESSOR TAUGHT NIKONOV
1N 1976 AT MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY WHILE A FULBRIGHT
PROFESSOR. NIKONOV WAS REGARDED AS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT AND
CAPABLE BUT GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT HE WAS AN IDEOLOGICAL
HAROLINER. THE PROFESSOR BELIEVED THAT HE WAS LIKELY TO BE A
RISING STAR IN THE SOVIET SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDED HIM FOR AN

. IREX-SPONSORED VISIT TO THE U.S. AS EXPECTED, NIKONOV'S VIEWS
AND RHETORIC MODERATED VERY VISIBLY AFTER HIS FIRST OIRECT
EXPOSURE TO ?7HE U.S. HE HAS HAD AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL
IREX-SPONSOREO TRIP TO THE U.S. ANO HAS SPENT PERIOOS OF TIME
Ae A PERSONAL GUEST AT THE HOME OF THE U.S. PROFESSOR IN

ARYLANO.

4, NIKONOV CAME TO WORK IN HIS POSITION AT THE KGB AS A
RESULT OF BEING A CLOSE FRIEND OF BAKATIN. OURING THE AUGUST
1991 COUP ATTEMPT NIKONOV SAID THAT HE REFUSED TO FOLLOW HIS
BOSS'S ORDER TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARED STATE OF
EMERGENCY. FE WAS DISMISSED BY HIS BOSS (NFI) FROM THIS - 2.2. > &
POSITION AND CALLED BAKATIN TO SEEX ADVICE. BAKATIN SAID HE
WAS ALSO ‘OPPOSING THE COUP ANO WOULD LOOK OUT FOR NIKONOV ONCE
ORDER WAS RESTORED. SOON AFTER THE COUP BAKATIN CALLED HIM TO
ASK THAT HE ASSIST WITH RESTRUCTURING THE KGB. AFTER {T WAS
AGREED THAT NIKONOV COULD DECLINE TO ACCEPT TWO-STAR MILITARY
oa KGB RANK ANO WORK IN THE JOB FOR AN EQUIVALENT CIVILIAN.
COMPENSATION PACKAGE, HE CAME TO THE KGB AS BAKATIN'S DEPUTY.° ~
NIKONOV SAID HIS FRIENDS WERE DELIGHTED THAT HE HAD DECLINED
THE KGB COMMISSION.

5. NIKONOV'S FIRST ASSIGNMENT FROM BAKATIN WAS MAKING

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE KGB-CIA LIAISON RELATIONSHIP WHICH HAS NOW
COME INTO BEING. IN PREPARATION FOR ONE POSSIBLE QUESTION

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WH'CH MIGHT BE RA!SEO, NIKONOV PERSONALLY REV'EWED “SB FILES TS
DETERMINE IF LEE HARVEY ((OSWALD)) HAD BEEN A KGB AGENT. HE
REVIEWED FIVE THICK VOLUMES OF FILES GN OSWALD. NIKONCV IS ‘GW
CONFIOENT THAT ZSWALO WAS AT NO TIME AN AGENT CONTROLLES BY THE
KGB. FROM THE GESCRIPTION OF OSWALD IN THE FILES HE DOUBTED
THAT ANYONE COULD CONTROL OSWALD, BUT NOTED THAT THE KBG
WATCHEO HIM CLOSE.Y ANC CONSTANTLY WHILE HE WAS IN THE USSR.

HE COMMENTED THAT OSWALD HAD A STORMY RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS
SOVIET WIFE, WHO RODE HIM iNCESSANTLY. THE FILE ALSO REFLECTES
THAT OSWA.D WAS A POCR SHCT WHEN HE TRIEO TARGET FIRING IN THE
USSR.

6. IN PREPARATICN FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A LIA!SON
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SWEDISH INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, NIKONGV
PERSONALLY PERFORMED AN INQUIRY FOR BAKATIN INTO THE FATE OF
SWEDISH DIPLOMAT RAOUL ((WALLENSERG)). THERE 1S STILL PRESSURE |
FROM THE SWEDISH SIDE TO HAVE A DEFINITIVE ANSWER ON THIS
MATTER BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUING {IMPORTANCE OF THE WALLENBERG
FAMILY. NIKONOV WAS AMAZED TO FIND OUT THAT THE KG3 HAD NOT {
,BEEN ABLE TO PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISH WHETHER WALLENBERG HAD OIEO
AND UNOER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES. HE WAS ABLE TO FIND PARTIAL
EVIDENCE FROM FOURTEEN DIFFERENT SOURCES (NF:). NIXONOV NOW
BELIEVES, BUT FOUND NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF, THAT WALLENBERG WAS
EXECUTED LATE IN 1947. THERE WERE INCICATIONS THAT WALLENBERS
WAS SUSPECTEC OF HAVING CONTACTS WITH OTHERS WHO WERE ACCUSED
OF PROVIDING FALSE OIPLOMATIC IDENTITY COCUMENTS TO OTHERS
BEYOND JEWS SAVEO FROM THE HOLOCAUST. . AMONG THESE WERE NAZI
WAR CRIMINALS WHO WERE ALLOWED TO ESCAPE. THERE WAS NO PROCF
OF WALLENSERG'S GUILT IN ANY OF THESE CHARGES.

7. FULBRIGHT PROFESSOR WHO 1S NIKONGV'S FORMER PROFESSOR
ANO FRIEND US:
NAME: €.B. ((SMiTH)}

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DOB: C.1920

CIT: USA

OCC: PROFESSOR SF HISTORY AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND,
RETIRED

LOC: RESIDES NEAR ANNAPOLIS, MC

OTHER: FULBRIGHT PROFESSOR FOR WINTER 1991 TERM IN ST
PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, USSR; TWO PREVIOUS FULBRIGHT
ASSIGNMENTS IN MOSCOW AND SEVERAL IN PRC AND GERMANY; HOSTS
FORMER STUDENTS FROM USSR AND PRC ON U.S. VISITS

THERE ARE NO BASE TRACES ON SMITH. HE SERVED IN THE
MILITARY AND IS VERY WELL DISPOSED TOWAROS THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT. HE VOLUNTEERED {NFO ON NIKONOV AND OTHER USSR, PRC
AND GERMAN CONTACTS TO HEIBERG AND CAN PROVIDE CONSIDERABLE 810
AND ASSESSMENT INFO ON THEM. ‘

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